📣 Freelance opportunity! We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive. Find out more and apply🔗

New issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 101 No. 2 (2025) www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal... #openaccess @thejohnrylands.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @tonyrichards.bsky.social @stefanhanss.bsky.social @ecgow.bsky.social

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

The imaging special edition of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now published! Read it for FREE, fully open access via @manchesterup.bsky.social www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

Now this is how to do research.

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

Just got the news to say I’ve been elected as a Fellow of the @royalhistsoc.org! With many thanks to my referee @adamchapman.bsky.social

Was saddened to hear of this sale

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

Do you or your students work with English manuscripts? We have a summer school course for you👇 Book now for June 2026 in person in London. #MedievalSky #RenaissanceSky 📖✏️ #palaeography ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

On Monday 1 December at 6pm, join archivist Stella Halkyard at the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle, where she will be reading from and discussing her recent Carcanet book, Library Lives. Tickets are 'pay as you wish', and can be booked here: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/a-book...

Looking forward to tomorrow's lunch-time seminar @thejohnrylands.bsky.social. Join me and Dr Hannah Yip to discover the Library's extra-illustrated books - unique objects customised by their owners with added illustrations.

New exhibition ‘Cottonopolis: The origins of global Manchester’ is now open. Explore how 18th century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing powerhouse and the centre of Britain’s booming cotton industry. 📅Visit Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm. Free entry.

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wigan

“a restoration team from Gaza's Ministry of Religious Endowments is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents — some nearly 700 years old — from beneath the rubble.”

At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky

🔊 JOBS ALERT! Two vacancies at the #InternationalSlaveryMuseum in #Liverpool! Join the wonderful team of curators reimagining this unique museum! Curatorial fellow: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/... Project facilitator: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

The casualisation/workload seesaw continues apace. I need a job, you have too much of a job, and yet here we both are.

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

VERY excited to see the forthcoming @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Bulletin special journal issue available for pre-order: shorturl.at/jWDap Edited by @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social & myself, we showcase stunning projects to discuss the extent to which imaging innovation transforms heritage studies

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship: 'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

These "Teaching the Codex" blog posts introducing collation formulas from Dr. Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social have particularly good illustrations that make it clear for students learning about it for the first time. 📜 teachingthecodex.com/author/teach...

‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home

As a once (& future?) library worker and current @ucu.org.uk member, I stand with striking BL staff. Library, and especially special collections, workers are often told they should accept low wages because they get “a dream job:” but any job needs to put food on the table & pay rent.

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

In our latest blog, Dr Naomi Baker writes about Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative from 1636-7, which gives us a rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War. Blog: https://ow.ly/Pt7i50Xcva4 Dr Baker's latest book: https://ow.ly/ltyT50Xcvnm

It was wonderful to have my book launch last night @porticolibrary.bsky.social. I had such a brilliant time! Thanks so much to everyone who came along - it was standing room only which was incredible. It meant the world to me that so many people want to hear about these amazing women 📚#earlymodern

Have posted a short blog discussing what we now know about Sarah Lewis, author of Women's Mission (1839).

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website! joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Archivist job! The Boston Public Library (BPL) is seeking an archivist for a 3-year grant-funded position to survey, inventory, and manage historic institutional records related to BPL’s Central Library in Copley Square.

Jobs For Medievalists Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Full-time) The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

New & aspiring MA/PhD students! Join us to learn how we can help you with your research at the first of our Doctoral Open Days 2025: 16 Oct - 'Getting Started at The British Library' (online) 31 Oct - 'Music, Sound and Vision' (in person) More info, events & tickets: events.bl.uk/whats-on/doc...

very pleased to be offering an open ended Archives Cataloguing post working with the University of Edinburgh's wide and deep literary archives. please do share with anyone interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

[Call for papers] FuMaSt – The Future of Manuscript Studies Fifth edition, Firenze, 5-6 February 2026 (no later than 30 October 2025). www.irht.cnrs.fr/sites/defaul...

The IHR Black British History Seminar is now on Bluesky, thanks to @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social! Give a follow for updates:

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Calling Manchester students @officialuom.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social - I'm guiding a history walk on Women of Oxford Road, for Elizabeth Gaskell House as part of The Cultural Welcome @oxrdmcr.bsky.social. Free but booking essential. oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/guide...

Join historian & archivist Dr. Mari Takayanagi for her talk: 'Necessary Women: The Untold History of Parliament’s Working Women' 🗓 Thursday 9th October 2025 🕓 4–5pm 📍 Gladstone’s Library 🎟️ Tickets £10 Visit buff.ly/oFgJiZq to book your ticket. 2/2

"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them." @drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention. theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

17 September 1986 Ahmed Iqbal Ullah was killed, stabbed at his Manchester school. A report by Ian Macdonald examined racial violence in schools and identified that ‘racism was one of the vital ingredients’ leading to the Bangladeshi schoolboy’s death. @aiucentre.bsky.social takes his name.

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

After signing, don’t forget to confirm your email ...or your signature won’t count! Every signature matters. Please share widely. Lives depend on it. The next step is equally important - see below petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... 2/ #KeepCovidBoosters